Shipping package



Sept; 28, 1937. E. c.v Gol-:BERT

SHIPPING PACKAGE 7 Filed March 26, 1935 'fir-1- ITL-vantnr 'ElmerErlebe-rt Attnna Patented Sept. 28, 1937 smrriNG PACKAGE Elmer o.soeben, United states Anny, Philadelphia, Pa.

Application March 26, 1935, Serial No. 13,068 4 Claims. (Cl. 206`8)(Granted under the act of March 3, 1883, 'as amended April 30, 1928; 3700. G. 757) The invention described herein may be manuterial such asfiber. .They are provided with a factured and used by or for theGovernment for governmental purposes, without the -payment to me of anyroyalty thereon.

readily removable cover 5 which has a close t on the body 6. In thepresent application of the invention the contents of the containerconsists 5 Thisinvention relates to a shipping package of a completeround of artillery ammunition `'l 5 especially designed for rounds ofartillery amwhichis held against movement when the cover munition butapplicable to other articles. is in place.

It has been the general practice heretofore to The plates B. are similarand consist of agenpack complete rounds of ammunition in individerallyat supporting surface 8 having a chan- 10 ual fiber containers and thenplace a number of neled peripheral bead 9 projecting outwardly 10 suchcontainers in a wooden box. 'I'he wooden away from the container. Theouter wall l0 of boxes are expensive,'heavy, bulky, and constitute ythechanneled bead is extended across the plane a ire hazard. of the surface8 to establish a skirt Il for lat- With a view` to eliminating thewooden boxes, erally confining the ends of the containers. The

to reducing the bulk and tare weight, and to beads 9 are ofsuicientextent to afford ample 15 facilitate handling, stacking and un-packing,it protection for the ends of the container and to is proposed in thisinvention to form a shipping provide finger-grip portions whereby thepackage package by coniiniig a group of individual conmay beConveniently Carried. tainers betweena pair of interconnected support-'I'he plates B are held tightly against the ends ing plates. Thesupporting plates afford protecof the containers by means of theconnector C 20 tion to the ends of the containers during trans- WhichConsists of o tie-rod l2 Dessine through en `portation, handling, andstacking and provide aperture I3 in each plete B. One end of theconvenient hand-holds. The plates and containrod 1S Provided With a headI4 While the other ers are inexpensive and needy not be salvaged. end isthreaded t0 receive a Wing-nut l5. Both With the foregoing and otherobjects in view, the head and the nut are disposed within the 25 theinvention resides in the novel arrangement depression formed by the bead9'of each Plateand combination of `parts and in the details of ThePloleS B When lShuS Secured, hold the Covers construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, 5 0f the Containers rmly in Pleoe, thereby Dreitbeing understood that changes in the precise Venting movement of theround of ammunition embodiment of the invention herein disclosed in eachcontainer and maintaining the closure t0 30 may be made within the scope0f what 1sy claimed protect the contents from deterioration due toWithout departing from the spirit of the invenmoiSture- 7 tion. Y Asclearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, only the ad- A practical embodiment ofthe invention is iljacent Portions of the endS of of group of00nlustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein: tainers ere Supportedby the flat Surface 8 of the 35 Fig, 1 is a, plan view 0f the improvedshipping end plates. The outer portion of each container package, n v isdisposed at the mouth of the channel of the Fig, 2 is a view in sideelevation, i bead. The unsupported outer portions of all of Fig, 3 is asectional view on the 11n@ 3 3 of the containers in a group constitutethe periphery Fig 2 of each end of the group. The bead 9 may there- 40Fig 4 'is 9, sectional view on the line 4 4 of fore be deformed withouttransmitting the blow Fig. 1. to the ends of the containers. Furtherprotection Fig. 5 is an inside plan view of an end plate, is alsoafforded by virtue of the fact that the con- Fig. 6 is a View showingthe manner of stacking tainers are mutually Supporting. the packages.When the packages are piled one on top of an- 45 Fig. 7 is an end viewof a different formation of other, for eXamDle under the Conditions ofdepot `the package. storage, the end plates of the bottom tier mustReferring to the drawing by characters of reftake the entire weight andtests have shown that erence, there is shown a shipping package contheyare capable of supporting the Weight without sisting of a plurality ofcontainers A, caps or failing or Causing damage t0 the ends lof the 50plates B at the ends of the containers and a concontainers. nector C forholding the end plates in place. The package is formed at the munitionsplant 'I'he containers A are' preferably cylindrical' and undergoes alltypes of transportation and though they may be of any shape and they arerough handling before it reaches the gun. 'Ihe task of opening thepackage and removing the 55 composed of a light metallic or non-metallicma- 2 p rounds oi' ammunitionirom the containers may be easily andquickly performed without the aid of tools. The rounds may be repackedwith equall facility.

I claim:

1. A shipping package comprising spaced similar end plates, each havinga channeled peripheral bead with a skirt, means for connecting theplates, and a group oi similar individual con- 10 tainers confined bythe 'end plates and within the having adjacent portions oi their endssupported on the plates and outer portions oi' their ends disposed inthe mouth oi' the channel. 3. A shipping package comprising a group osimilar individual containers, a pair of similar plates each contactingan end o! the group of containers, each plate having a peripheral beadprojecting on the side of the plate opposite to the containers and meansconnecting the plates and holding them in clamping engagement with thecontainers. l.

4. An end plate for coniining a group of members into a shipping packagecomprising a generally iiat supporting member, a peripheral bead on saidmember and projecting on one side thereoi', said bead having a channel,and the outer wall of the channel projectingV on the other side oi saidmember and forming a skirt.

ELMER C. GOEBERT.

